Scouts

This probably does not come as any surprise to you, reader, but I was never much one for playing sports in elementary or high school. My replacement (by choice) for these typical extracurricular activates was Boy Scouts.

Fall Semester, 2010

Today marks the beginning of my final semester as an MSLIS student at Syracuse. It is frankly a bit odd to say that, but it is true. I will have been in graduate school for about a year and a half, much shorter (it seems) than many of my fellow classmates. I hope this semester is a great conclusion to the degree, as I am certainly taking some interesting courses:

Three Aspects of Teaching Architecture

I read this statement, part of a larger conversation with architecture students at Rice and Louis Kahn. Though he is discussing how to teach architecture, I think there are some great points that can be applied to librarianship as well. So, without further ado, here is the quote:

Library Robots

As it does every Wednesday, my American Libraries email from the ALA arrived in my inbox. It's pretty dense, but I usually glean about five articles from each email, and the best article from this week was this one, I think:

Downtime

I am halfway through my second (of two) weeks off from school. Classes start on Monday, and so I have a few precious days remaining in my break. What have I been doing? As you read yesterday, the Mrs. and I visited Kansas City, but much of my downtime has been filled with catching up on my reading, and I have loved this.

Kansas City, 2010

Despite our regular posts on Friday and yesterday, Jen and I were in Kansas City this weekend. It was our first long road trip (9.5 hours) through multiple states (Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri), but we really had a great time. While they are fresh on my mind, I would like to share with you what we did and some thoughts from the trip.

Putting the "W" in Jason W. Dean

You might have noticed recently here on The Dean Files that I have added my middle initial to my "display name." I did this only after overcoming a large reservation on my part - people that use their middle initials all the time (seem to me) to be a bit, well, snooty. So why did I choose to ignore this reservation and add my middle initial? Well, there are two salient points to this little discourse, I think.